Testimonials

A week of silence meditation, what is it, how does it work, and most important: what are the results? When silence comes, and there’s nothing and no one left to distract you from yourself, that’s when they come. One by one they come, the demons, fears and insecurities, the character flaws. All your memories, made up of 33 years of life, stored in that poor body that you call yours. It’s definitely what you call a major clean up.

When I first went to Tapa Brata Meditation I was feeling very unbalanced and unfulfilled in my life. I was thirty six years old, still single and without a child. I had told myself that a successful career and life in a tropical country should be enough but my true burning desire was to meet the right person and have a child together.

My name is Bhikku Bodhi, and as Merta Ada mentioned yesterday, I’ve lived as a Buddhist monk now for 29 years, most of this time I’ve spent in Srilanka. In a way I have to say it’s a little unfair to me to try to evaluate this Usada II course for 2 reasons : First of all, that I didn’t really do systematically Usada I, and so this is my first experience to come into the blue to Usada II. And the other reason is that I’ve been living as a monk for 29 years. I’ve done some of these meditations for many years. I’m not completely new to them.

My name is Komang. I am not raised by my biological parents. I do not exactly know how I came to be raised by my grandparents ever since I was a newborn baby. We lived in a peaceful village. My parents are separated. I grew up alone. Until I was in high school, I often cried when I was studying alone.

During that afternoon, when my PCR swab test came out positive, various kinds of thoughts were raging inside my mind. Firstly, why is it that I still got it after properly following the health protocol. Then where did I get it from? A thought came up in my mind as to who spread this to me. How about my whole family as I have an elderly mother who is staying with me. It is undeniable that various negative thoughts appear just like that.